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if romney were to pick up three, four points, you'd be looking at a neck -- and it's a very tight race. no, there's precedent for that. it could happen. zbleeld be ahead actually in a lot of national polls. tom, we'll go to polls in one second. but before we do, i want to ask you, of all the debates you've watched, of all the debates you've followed, i guess since 1980, because you had kennedy in '60 and then i guess the next one was in '80 -- or '76, i'm sorry. was there a debate that changed everything other than reagan's last debate against carter? was ford in '76 the mark? was that a game change -- how much can we expect the narrative to be changed in >> i think the first debate between al gore and george w. bush changed it because it said to the country, bush is capable of being president of the united states, and al gore is not a guy that we're comfortable with. that was the great sign debate in which he was -- >> eye rolling. >> eye rolling and sighing. he just gave off something that the people kind of rejected. and bush was folksy and seemed to be well read in. however, this d
if romney were to pick up three, four points, you'd be looking at a neck -- and it's a very tight race. no, there's precedent for that. it could happen. zbleeld be ahead actually in a lot of national polls. tom, we'll go to polls in one second. but before we do, i want to ask you, of all the debates you've watched, of all the debates you've followed, i guess since 1980, because you had kennedy in '60 and then i guess the next one was in '80 -- or '76, i'm sorry. was there a debate that changed...
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i think mitt romney has an opportunity to shake up the race tonight. you know, obviously, you know, expectations, both sides have been playing the expectations game. the reality is that challengers win the first debate more often than not. you know, you might think that's me playing expectations, but that's also a fact. and we know that mitt romney is a good debater. the president's a pretty good debater, too. we want a good, substantive conversation tonight. if romney puts those details on the table, those specifics he's been holding back on, maybe he can change the dynamic of this race. >> mark mckinnon. >> hi, stephanie, mark here. i suspect your boss will be asked this tonight, but let me ask you, the vice president yesterday said that the middle class was buried during the last four years. how do you respond to the vice president's remarks from yesterday? >> well, if you look at what the vice president said and what he's been saying on the campaign trail is that the middle class has been buried by the exact same policies that mitt romney and paul
i think mitt romney has an opportunity to shake up the race tonight. you know, obviously, you know, expectations, both sides have been playing the expectations game. the reality is that challengers win the first debate more often than not. you know, you might think that's me playing expectations, but that's also a fact. and we know that mitt romney is a good debater. the president's a pretty good debater, too. we want a good, substantive conversation tonight. if romney puts those details on the...
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if you saw it in a vacuum you'd say romney is in the game. i think if he has some good news, a good first debate, i think the race will be significantly tighter than it's been and then they can move off just answering different versions of the same question every day, why are you so far behind, and have a chance to talk about things they want to talk about like the economy. but he is still behind in too many places to win and doesn't have as of today an obvious electoral college path and he is not going to make it up i don't think on the ground with enthusiasm anymore which is one thing they've been counting on. >> brian sullivan, let's bring you in as our money man. new polling from "the washington post" and the kaiser family foundations are gauging how the issue of medicare is factoring into the presidential race in three key states. i think these polls do more than anything to prove how this has been a substance free campaign on both sides. it's been a campaign according to mika brzenzski that has been a sign campaign. medicare is consider
if you saw it in a vacuum you'd say romney is in the game. i think if he has some good news, a good first debate, i think the race will be significantly tighter than it's been and then they can move off just answering different versions of the same question every day, why are you so far behind, and have a chance to talk about things they want to talk about like the economy. but he is still behind in too many places to win and doesn't have as of today an obvious electoral college path and he is...
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>> chuck, what about the issue that romney is doing so well in the red states that makes the race look closer on a national basis but when you get into the swing state polls, obama is now opening so much daylight it's got to be so difficult for romney to catch up? >> reporter: well, look, the path to 270 has been an issue, but i would be very careful of the subgroups of a national poll that tell you here where the swing states are. you're talking about nine states. some pollsters are only including eight in this little subgroup. so you have a margin of error in here that reaches 9% or 10%. so you may report a double-digit lead. for instance the abc poll reported a double-digit lead in the swing states for the president. except it has a double-digit margin of error. they only included eight states in their swing state. we include nine in ours. so just careful of that fluctuation. that doesn't -- obviously mitt romney's strong in the red states, but the numbers i've seen consistently in our polling, the president is stronger in the blue states than romney is in the red states in our spli
>> chuck, what about the issue that romney is doing so well in the red states that makes the race look closer on a national basis but when you get into the swing state polls, obama is now opening so much daylight it's got to be so difficult for romney to catch up? >> reporter: well, look, the path to 270 has been an issue, but i would be very careful of the subgroups of a national poll that tell you here where the swing states are. you're talking about nine states. some pollsters...
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>> i'm ready for you to talk about the presidential race. >> zip it. according to the latest quinnipiac university/new york times/cbs news poll of likely voters, it's actually related -- >> no, it's not. >> president obama leads romney by 10 percentage points in ohio. no republican has lost and then won the presidency. the president is up nine points in florida and has opened up a 12-point lead in pennsylvania. in the same poll, president obama leads mitt romney in his handling of the economy in all three states. 51% of polled voters say the president would do the better job. >> okay, let's go back to the last slide, guys. and mark halperin, let's talk to you. i know you agree with me that the media is liberal. guess what? republicans have somehow managed to win despite that media liberal bias. you've said it repeatedly on this show. so despite that fact, mitt romney is not getting crushed in all three of these states because of the liberal media bias. what's happening there, and why is he losing so badly, especially in ohio? >> well, it's very unlikel
>> i'm ready for you to talk about the presidential race. >> zip it. according to the latest quinnipiac university/new york times/cbs news poll of likely voters, it's actually related -- >> no, it's not. >> president obama leads romney by 10 percentage points in ohio. no republican has lost and then won the presidency. the president is up nine points in florida and has opened up a 12-point lead in pennsylvania. in the same poll, president obama leads mitt romney in his...
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mitt romney saying he's not paying attention to the polls. you're having a lot of his supporters saying, well, you don't pay any attention to the polls. i heard walter mondale say that the night before the election. a lot of desperation going on on the far right, but what's happening in the race? >> laser focus on the swing states. the candidates in virginia today, one of 30 states where early voting is already under way. it's a state president obama won in 2008 by more than six points. and where a polling average from real clear politics shows him right now at this moment up about 4.5 points. yesterday both candidates holding rallies in ohio, crisscrossing the state, sometimes almost running into each other they were so close campaigning. mitt romney tried to brush back suggestions his campaign is faltering there after that "new york times"/cbs/quinnipiac poll showing him ten points down in ohio. >> i'm very pleased with some polls, less so with other polls. but frankly at this early stage, polls go up and down. i don't expect to get 100% of
mitt romney saying he's not paying attention to the polls. you're having a lot of his supporters saying, well, you don't pay any attention to the polls. i heard walter mondale say that the night before the election. a lot of desperation going on on the far right, but what's happening in the race? >> laser focus on the swing states. the candidates in virginia today, one of 30 states where early voting is already under way. it's a state president obama won in 2008 by more than six points....